Device for pulling stoppers or seals from bottles.



Patented Oct. 24, I899.

E. A. LUFKIN.

DEVICE FOR PULLING STUPPERS 0B SEALS FROM BOTTLES.

(Applicationflled Dec. 18, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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EDWARD A. LUFKIN, OF BELOIT, WISCONSIN.

DEVICE FOR PULLING STOPPERS OR SEALS FROM BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 635,330, dated October 24, 1899. Application filed December 16,1898. Serial N6. 699,455. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, EDWARD A. LUFKIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beloit, in the county of Rock and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Pulling Stoppers or Seals from Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for pulling stoppers or seals from bottles which are used principally for containing efiervescent or carbonated beverages. These stoppers or seals consist of a disk of rubber, felt,or other elastic material which fit tightly in the mouth of the bottles and are provided with a metal eye or staple to receive the end of a lever by which the stopper or seal is pried out of the bottle.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of puller by which the stopper may be more readily removed and by which the bottle is held and liability of the latter being broken avoided.

The invention consists of a tapering collar preferably lined with india-rubber adapted to fit over the mouth of a bottle formed in the inner side with a vertical slot, a handle formed with lugs, alever pivoted thereto formed with a hook at the inner side adapted to engage with the staple or eye of the stopper or seal.

It also consists in forming said lever at the outer end with a tack-drawer and providing the said handle with a pivoted corkscrew which when closed rests within a horizontal slot therein, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

I11 the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a central longitudinal sectional view showing the device as it appears when the hooked lever is engaged with the eye or staple of the stopper or seal to withdraw the latter. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the. corkscrew opened for use. Fig. 3 is a plan view, the corkscrew being closed. Fig. 4 is a cross-section on the line a; m, Fig. 1.

In the said drawings the referencenumeral 1 designates a tapering ring or collar preferably made of metal and provided with a lining 2 of india-rubber or other elastic mate rial. The large end of the collar or ring is adapted to fit over the mouth or outer end of the neck of a bottle of any ordinary or suitmeral I designates a handle secured to or formed integral with said collar and provided with two lugs 5, to which is pivoted a lever 6,

the inner end of which is formed with a hook 7, adapted to engage with the eye or staple of a seal or stopper. The outer end of this lever is formed with a tack-drawer more especially designed for removing the tacks or nails from cigar-boxes. The said handle is formed with a longitudinal slot 8, in which is located a corkscrew 9, pivoted to the handle. This screw at its fulcrum-point is formed with aprojection l0, and the'handle is formed with a corresponding recess 11, with which said projection engages for holding the corkscrew in place when opened. When the corkscrew is closed, it is held in such position by a projection 12 011 one of the inner sides of the slot or opening in the handle, engaging with a correspondingly-formed recess in the butt of the corkscrew, asshown more clearly in Fig. 4.

The operation is as follows: To withdraw a seal or stopper from a bottle, the inner end of the lever is depressed by elevating the opposite end and the collar or ring slipped over the mouth of the bottle and the hook engaged With the eye or staple of the seal or stopper. The outer end of the lever is then depressed or forced toward the handle, when the seal or stopper will be withdrawn.

From the above it will be seen that there is no liability of breaking the bottle, as the collar fitting entirely around the mouth of the same in prying out the seal the lever will not come in contact with the bottle, as is the case in the ordinary devices for removing such seals.

The manner of using the tack-drawer and corkscrew will be readily understood,and a detailed description therefore is not necessary.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is 1-. As an improved article, a device for withdrawing seals or stoppers from bottles consisting of the tapering collar or ring formed with a Vertical slot in the inner side, the rubber the lever pivoted to said handle formed with a recess with which the projection of the corkscrew is adapted to engage, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD A. LUFKIN.

Y'Vitnesses:

WM. W. RILEY, M W. ROTH. 

